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Erin Franco

Interior Life

Giving without poetry

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

“A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmate, a steadying column.” -Sirach 36:24 “A gracious wife delights her husband,…
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God’s mercy and the Poky Little Puppy

God’s mercy and the Poky Little Puppy

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

Gabriel is my own poky little puppy. I’m talking about the head-in-the-clouds, procrastinating, slow-moving, can’t-walk-in-a-straight-line-distracted kind of poky. It’s been…
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These aren’t my kids.

These aren’t my kids.

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

These aren’t my kids.  I mean–they are. But they aren’t.  They’re God’s kids, and they’re on loan. He’s given me…
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Peace in the seasonal

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

So often these days, I remind myself that something I am going through is just a season. That trials or…
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Stories from a warrior wife, and mowing for my marriage

Stories from a warrior wife, and mowing for my marriage

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life

Last weekend I scored some major Cool Wife brownie points with Michael.  On Saturday, my friend Susie and I ran…
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Read between the Legos

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

When I’m feeling overwhelmed, I take a deep breath, throw my shoulders back, and remind myself to read between the…
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I'm a south Louisiana girl, Catholic wife, writer, speaker, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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